Everything You Want to Know about YisouSpider
YisouSpider is the crawler for Shenma Search, a mobile-first Chinese search engine operated by Shenma Inc., a UC/Alibaba affiliate.
Last verified August 15, 2026 against Yisou (Shenma Search)'s published crawler docs
Why it's crawling your site
YisouSpider crawls your site to index it for Shenma Search results in China.
How YisouSpider views your website
YisouSpider fetches raw page HTML (full page html, no js rendering documented) — it does not execute JavaScript. Content that only appears after client-side rendering is invisible to it.
Paste a URL for the rendered-vs-crawled diff, blocked resources, and the sections that never reach the bot.
How to block YisouSpider
Add the rule below to your site's robots.txt. Most crawlers, including YisouSpider, check for changes within 24 hours.
User-agent: YisouSpider (also seen lowercase yisouspider)
Disallow: /Need the full walkthrough?
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